Michiel de Ruyter – Battle of Nyborg
Detail
Date of first edition: 1732
Date of this map: 1732
Dimensions (not including margins): 27,5 x 34,5 cm
Dimensions (including margins): 31,5 x 37 cm
Condition: Good. Double vertical fold as published. Wide margins.
Condition rating: A
Verso: blank
From: ‘Het leven en bedryf van den heere Michiel de Ruiter’. Amsterdam. a.d. 1732 by Geeraert Brandt (1626-1685) author and Daniel Stoopendaal (1672-1726) engraver.
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Nyborg
The Battle of Nyborg was a battle fought between Sweden and the combined forces of Denmark, Dutch naval forces under Michiel de Ruyter, troops of Brandenburg-Prussia, and Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth forces under Stefan Czaniecki. The battle was engaged on 14 November 1659 at Nyborg on the Danish island of Funen. Nyborg was the final major battle of the Dano-Swedish War of 1658 to 1660.
Swedish Imperial Field Marshal Philip Florinus of Sulzbach, leading the vanquished Swedish forces, was forced to save his own life by fleeing under cover of night. The battle is considered one of the most important Danish victories of the war. For his involvement de Ruyter was knighted by the Danish king Frederick III of Denmark.
This view shows the liberation of Nyborg in a bird’s-eye view of the walled city of Nyborg in the upper left with the Danish army (“F. Het Densche Leegre”) approaching the city in the upper left corner and the harbor (“B. De Slips Haven”) filled with ships of the Dutch fleet, de Ruyter’s ship (“1. De Hr. Vice Adm. Michiel de Ruiter”) is at left center. In the upper right Dutch ships are firing on the Swedish cannons (“D. Het Zweedts Kanon”).
The view includes a lettered key (A-F) that identifies geographic features and the combatants, and a numbered key (1-18) that identifies the Dutch ships by their captain (“Kapt.”) or commander, not all the ships are identified, (“16. De Hr. Commanduer de Wildt”) is among a group of unidentified ships at bottom center.
Title: De Stadt Nyborg veroverdt door de Hr. Michiel de Ruiter en’t Slaan der Zweeden door de Deenen en der selfver Bontgenooten op den 25 Nov. 1659
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Adriaenszoon Michiel de Ruyter (Flushing-Vlissingen, March 24, 1607 – Bay of Syracuse, April 29, 1676) was a prosperous merchant in Zeeland.In the 1640s, he (at the Battle of Cape St. Vincent in Portugal in 1641 he was already Rear Admiral) got some naval experience as he was the Rear Admiral (Schout-bij-Nacht at the Battle of Cape St. Vincent in Portugal in 1641). The function of the Rear Admiral is to sail as the last ship in a convoy and to watch the defense of the back of the fleet. Hence its name.
At the beginning of the First Anglo-Dutch War in 1652 de Ruyter had in fact already “retired”. However, the Admiralty of Zeeland appealed to his sense of duty. Even more so, when the Dutch admiral Maarten Tromp died in the Battle of Scheveningen on August 10, 1653, de Ruyter first refused the top job in the Dutch Navy, but he became nevertheless admiral of the Admiralty of Amsterdam. As a non-noble boy from the far-away Vlissingen he was socially miles away removed from the noble elite circles of the newborn country and from its Navy.
Unfortunately, the young Republic was torn apart in a civil war (even with incredible external threats from both England and France): Orangists (in favor of William III, also King of England) against Republicans. De Ruyter was unwillingly placed in the camp of the Republican advocate, Johan de Witt, then Pensionary of Holland… and in practice of the political leader of the Republic. In 1665 Michiel was appointed by the Witt to Admiral of the Navy, much to the displeasure of Cornelis Tromp, son of the late Admiral Martin Tromp and a fierce supporter of William. During 20 year Michiel obtained one naval success after the other, most often against the stronger British navy, but also against the French, sometimes in combination. His tactics and strategy are still study materials in the marine worldwide. This took place against an increasing erupting civil war at home! As we know, the Orangists eventually get the upper hand in the 1670s, and Witt was murdered in 1672. This effectively sealed the fate of de Ruyter. William II sent him on what could only be described as a suicide mission (and Michiel knew this): a naval battle against a vastly superior French opponent in 1676 at Zarda(Syracuse, Sicily). He would not return alive: the French stopped all hostilities when they heard that de Ruyter had died: they opened a solemn row of admiration to let the Dutch fleet sail home.